Eric Matthew Frein: Pictures, Facts for Suspect ID‘d in ’Survivalist' Pennsylvania Police Shooting [Breaking News]

Eric Matthew Frein: Pictures, Facts for Suspect ID‘d in ’Survivalist' Pennsylvania Police Shooting [Breaking News]
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, right, speaks to the press at the Blooming Grove Baptist Church in Pike County, Pa., Monday, Sept. 15, 2014 about the shooting Friday night that took the life of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper and critically injured another. Corbett said investigators won't rest until they capture the gunman. He flanked by Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan, left. AP Photo/The Times-Tribune, Michael J. Mullen
Zachary Stieber
Updated:

Eric Matthew has been identified as the “survivalist” suspect in the Pennsylvania state police shooting.

Matthew, whose full name is Eric Matthew Frein, is 31 and lives about 20 miles from the barracks that were attacked on Friday, leaving one trooper dead and another wounded.

“He is at large and he is considered armed and extremely dangerous,” Commissioner Frank Noonan said, reported NBC.

“He has been described as a survivalist ... He has made statements about wanting to kill law enforcement officers and also about wanting to commit mass acts of murder.”

The gunman opened fire on the Blooming Grove barracks, killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson and critically wounding Trooper Alex Douglass.

Eric Matthew. (Twitter)
Eric Matthew. Twitter

This photo provided by the Pennsylvania State Police shows Cpl. Byron Dickson. Dickson was killed by a gunman as he left the police barracks in Blooming Grove, Pa. State police spokesman Trooper Tom Kelly said investigators hope to soon interview Trooper Alex Douglass, who was injured in the attack, to get additional information on the ambush. (AP Photo/Pennsylvania State Police)

The U.S. flag is flow at half-staff outside of the Pennsylvania State Police headquarters in Dunmore, Pa., on Saturday, Sept 13, 2014. (AP Photo/ The Times-Tribune, Jake Danna Stevens)

A Pennsylvania State Trooper stands in the parking lot at the state police barracks on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Blooming Grove Township, Pa. On Friday night, State Trooper Cpl. Bryon Dickson, 38, of Dunmore, Pa., was killed and Trooper Alex T. Douglass, 31, of Olyphant, Pa. was wounded after a shooting ambush at the barracks. (AP Photo / The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys)

Members of the Pennsylvania State Police and law enforcement conservation officers with the Pennsylvania Game Commission walk from the state police barracks to a wooded area across the street on Route 402 to investigate near where two Pennsylvania State troopers were ambushed Friday, on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014, in Blooming Grove Township, Pa. (AP Photo/The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys)

Noonan says about 200 law enforcement officials are looking for Frein, but his whereabouts are unknown.

Noonan says Frein is considered armed and “extremely dangerous.”

Police executed a search on Frein’s home and found found spent bullet casings of the type used in the shooting, reported the Patriot-News.

Anyone with information is asked to call state police at 866-326-7256.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

Zachary Stieber
Zachary Stieber
Senior Reporter
Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at [email protected]
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